extend EOL for Red Hat Linux 9?
William Hooper
whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Sat Apr 3 00:59:13 UTC 2004
James Ralston said:
> On 2004-04-02 at 09:16:48+0100 Mark J Cox <mjc at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Red Hat Linux 9 distribution will reach its end-of-life for errata
>> maintenance on April 30, 2004. This means that from May 1, 2004 we
>> will not be producing new security, bugfix, or enhancement updates
>> for this product.
>
> I think it would be a very good idea for Red Hat to continue (at the
> minimum) security errata maintenance for Red Hat Linux 9 until Fedora
> Core 2 has been out for, say, 30 days or so.
Don't hold your breath.
> This will permit people who did not upgrade to FC1 to upgrade directly
> from RHL9 to FC2 and maintain security errata support, without having
> to first upgrade to FC1.
>
> Thoughts?
EOL has been posted since RHL 9 came out. People using RH9 now should
already have a plan.
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William Hooper
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